1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 199

CHAPTER 199.

Passed Mar. 18,

1839.

An act to incorporate the Boonsborough Beneficial Society.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, many citizens of Washington county,
have formed a society founded on principles of chari-
ty, benevolence and mutual assistance to each other,
and by their petition prayed for an act to incorporate
said society, in order more fully to advance the inter-
est of said society: — Therefore,

Persons incorporat-

ed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That A. McBride, David Gildert, Lewis
Fletcher, Michael Beard, Edward Davis, John C.
Brining, Joseph Crisswell, Jacob Beard, Henry New-
comer, Henry Blessing, John Brown. William, Hyl-
diller, Peyton Kinnore, G. Strause, John Moore, Jr.,

be, and they are hereby created and declared to be in-

Name and style.

corporated, as a body politic, under the name and style
of the Boonsborough Beneficial Society, and by that
name they shall be, and are hereby made able and ca-
pable in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy
and retain to them and their successors, lands, tene-
ments, rents, annuities, or other hereditaments, and

manner as they may judge most conducive to the inter-

Limit estate $20, 000.

ests of the society; Provided nevertheless, that the said
corporation, or body politic, shall not, at any time,
hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, ex-
ceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

General powers

granted.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said society, and
their successors, by the aforesaid name, shall forever
hereafter be able and capable in law, to sue and be
sued, plead and be inpleaded, answer and be answer-
ed, defend and be defended, in all or any court of jus-
tice whatsoever, and also to have, make, and use, a
common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew
at pleasure, and also to assemble and meet, at such
times and places as they may agree upon, and to or-
dain, establish and put in execution, such by-laws, or-
dinances and regulations as to them shall seem condu-
cive to the interest of the said Boonsborough Benefi-
cial society, and necessary to the good government
and orderly management thereof, the same not contra-